Update on the marks situation
We had tutor-student reviews today, which means that my epic letter of displeasure lies abandoned in the dank recesses of my hard-drive, as I gave Steffan an earful about the issues I had with the marking system, and the specific issues with the marking of my paper. It's apparently going to be re-assessed, which is good.
But, I'm still a little irritated at the marking system. My fears were correct in that we're being marked on an 'achievement'-esque system: we have to fulfill a set of requirements to get a certain grade. The problem being, this worked fine previously, as you could resubmit it as many times as you wanted. However, they changed the system for our class, because people who were unable to handle the course kept having their work pile up on-top of them - getting new assignments to hand in, even as the old ones needed to be resubmitted. So, they changed it, but didn't really analyse the implications this would have on the system.
I'm disappointed. I thought I managed to avoid this malarkey by not doing any more NCEA after Level 1. Gah.
What's even more irritating, is the reason that our marks were so late to get back to us - apparently, due to "one member of [our] class," they marks are being held up in some kind of bureaucratic process. I can guess who that person is, and I am ANGRY.
Grrr.
But, I'm still a little irritated at the marking system. My fears were correct in that we're being marked on an 'achievement'-esque system: we have to fulfill a set of requirements to get a certain grade. The problem being, this worked fine previously, as you could resubmit it as many times as you wanted. However, they changed the system for our class, because people who were unable to handle the course kept having their work pile up on-top of them - getting new assignments to hand in, even as the old ones needed to be resubmitted. So, they changed it, but didn't really analyse the implications this would have on the system.
I'm disappointed. I thought I managed to avoid this malarkey by not doing any more NCEA after Level 1. Gah.
What's even more irritating, is the reason that our marks were so late to get back to us - apparently, due to "one member of [our] class," they marks are being held up in some kind of bureaucratic process. I can guess who that person is, and I am ANGRY.
Grrr.